insolent
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Insolent schoolkids and educators with the stamina and sensitivity to reach them is a sentimental formula so familiar, it could stand a pantsing in the hallway between classes.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 19, 2025
"Insolent Pom insults PM" was one headline, when he called the prime minister, Harold Holt, a "disappointment".
From BBC • Nov. 9, 2022
Insolent or audacious in address; coolly impudent or presuming.
From BBC • Oct. 16, 2012
Insolent, fearful, desolate and touched with the antic brilliance of madness, this Fool becomes a jagged, glittering prism for the unhinged world of “King Lear.”
From New York Times • Nov. 9, 2011
Insolent words uttered in the arrogant consciousness of power were always heard in heaven and always punished.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
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The SAT: Words to Capture Tone, List 3
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